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refutations
noun
(ref-u-ta-tion)
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
Synonyms:
defence
,
defense
,
Examples:
His refutation of the charges was short and persuasive.
refutations
noun
(ref-u-ta-tion)
the act of determining that something is false
Synonyms:
disproof
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
refutal
,
refutations
noun
(ref-u-ta-tion)
any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
Synonyms:
disproof
,
falsification
,
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refutations
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disproof
,
falsification
,
defense
,
defence
,
sophistical
,
counterarguments
,
factuality
,
rebuttal
,
falsehoods
,
exaggerations
,
fallacies
,
apologetics
,
tu quoque
,
hyperboles
,
speciousness
,
ad hominem
,
misquotation
,
apologia
,
explications
,
critique
,
debunking
,
sophistry
,
slanders
,
postulation
,
syllogisms
,
exegeses
,
heresies
,
circumlocutions
,
polemics
,
balderdash
,
reasonings
,
rejoinder
,
exegetical
,
falsities
,
argumentation
,
assertions
,
tautologies
,
treatises
,
untruths
,
hagiographies
,
bunkum
,
ex cathedra
,
monism
,
evolutionism
,
disputations
,
fisk
,
tendentiousness
,
scientism
,
incommensurability
,
revisionism
,
counterexample
,
obiter dicta
,
slanderers
,
dubiousness
,
calumnies
,
justifications
,
generalizations
,
arguments
,
conjectures
,
pronouncements
,
ripostes
,
libels
,
reductionism
,
ipse dixit
,
reproaches
,
macroevolution
,
panegyric
,
theories
,
pedantry
,
criticisms
,
diatribes
,
claptrap
,
theodicy
,
irrelevancies
,
supernaturalism
,
denials
,
canards
,
twaddle
,
precis
,
arguers
,
imputations
,
jeremiad
,
casuistry
,
judeophobia
,
theses
,
inuendo
,
contentions
,
screeds
,
antisemite
,
drivel
,
deniers
,
vituperation
,
explanations
,
empiricist
,
mendacities
,
gnostics
,
presuppositions
,
theologizing
,
gobbets
,
logical fallacy
,
refutations
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